Worksheet # 84

Knights of Labor    Proletariat    Massachusetts    Samuel Gompers   Pullman Strike
Haymarket Riot   survival of the fitest    Eugene Debs   nativism   Chinese Exclusion Act

1) Where a famous workers strike in Chicago lead to violence when
       a bomb was thrown in 1886: _______.
2) Man who started and ran the American Federation of Labor:________.
3) People who supported the protections and privileges of those
       born in a country over immigrant people: _______.
4) In 1882, they passed this law to prevent more immigrant labor
       from coming to the United States: ___________.
5) The strike of railroad workers in 1894 outside of Chicago: ________.
6) A leader of that strike who was jailed and became a socialist,
       a believer in government ownership of property: _________.
7) A name for labor and working-class people:________.
8) The state which passed the first law limiting the number of hours
       women and children could work in factories: _______.
9) What John D. Rockefeller called capitalism: ______________.
10) Union founded in 1869 for all unskilled workers: _________.

Thought Question: What reasons did workers have for going on strike?
       Why did the government stop some strikes?

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